diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 37134b1e..884b7684 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## 0.7.18-dev0
+## 0.7.18
 
 * refactor: remove all image extraction related code
 
diff --git a/unstructured_inference/__version__.py b/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
index e1de59cc..9d99e964 100644
--- a/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
+++ b/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.7.18-dev0"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.7.18"  # pragma: no cover